Marcus Botha News Today

It is not unlikely that NHI will start soon, seen that the president said that he is looking for a pen to sign the NHI Bill into law.

By now, we’ve all seen the headlines about South Africa’s 51% GDP contraction for the second quarter of 2020, a 16.4% decrease compared with the first quarter. While it bounced back in the third, it’s still worrying. Stats SA reported an unemployment rate of 35% in the second quarter and bank processing data have revealed that only one in five South Africans has received their full salaries since April 2020. We always knew the national lockdown meant sacrificing economic growth for the sa...